B R I X T O N M A R K E T / London

W O R K I N P R O G R E S S / Material Futures Course

The course MA Textile Futures showcased posgraduate projects at the Work In Progress show in Central Saint Martins. 

W O R K S / London Design Festival!

WORKS www.madebyworks.com is a collective of recently graduates from the prestigious Royal College of Art, formed in 2012. Their projects and work range from furniture, glassware, ceramics, limited edition designs and lightning. 

B r i c k l a n e Market / London

'MOK A coffee art' by designer LAURA DAZA

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

'MOK A coffee art' is a collection of limited edition illustrations created by designer and artist Laura Daza www.lauradaza.com, inspired in one of her greatest passions, the enjoyment of drinking a cup of the best hand roasted coffee. Is the romanticism, the aroma and the secret behind this art making, what makes it appealing to many coffee lovers, especially to this designer/artist.

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

The drinking of coffee is about indulging in the simple pleasures of life and the sharing of moments together; the foam technique and the interesting designs made by pouring the foamed milk into the espresso such as lovely hearts, leaves and abstract shapes; is what makes this a unique experience.

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

MOK A, name that comes from Moka pot or espresso machinetta or machine; is a coffee maker invented by Italians. It is a nostalgic design that brings affection and is essential in almost every cucina italiana 'Italian kitchen'. The designer got inspiration for this project while traveling to Italy and understanding the art of drinking a cappuccino, espresso or any other coffee derivative. 

With this project the aim is to reinterpret and propose a new imagery of the traditional Moka aluminum pot. The use of vibrant colours, geometric shapes, polka dots and contrasting elements makes it a hip and pop design, exploring the boundaries of design and different ways of expressing and experimenting with life emotions. All the illustrations were hand-drawn using funky coloured markers and inks to give the sketchy appereance. 

'My studio place is located in Bethnal Green, in the East part of London. It can be said that is my home and tabernacle where I enjoy working, letting my ideas flow and especially make the best coffee in the Moka pot' - Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Coffee places that have inspired this designer:

Look Mum No Hands - Old Street -  London http://www.lookmumnohands.com/
Pitfields  - Hoxton- London http://www.pitfieldlondon.com/
Fix 126 - Shoreditch - London http://www.fix-coffee.co.uk/
Mud - East Village - NYC  http://www.onmud.com/
The Bean - East Village - NYC http://thebeannyc.com/
Il Caffe di Sant' Eustachio - Piazza Sant´Eustachio - Rome  http://www.santeustachioilcaffe.it
Gran Caffé Renzelli - Historic centre - Cosenza http://www.renzelli.com 
Poco Coffee Bar - Stokes Croft - Bristol http://www.tomsfeast.com/restaurants/poco-bristol/

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

Designer and photographer: Laura Daza

For more information visit www.lauradaza.com

Tracey Neuls' Shoes - A Sculptural Artwork

Photography: Laura Daza

Tracey Neuls is a contemporary shoe designer with a shop located in the heart of Shoreditch, in the trendy Redchurch Street. A colourful graffiti facade makes it appealing to pedestrians passing by the shop window, which is characterized by an installation of hanging shoes in a minimalistic style. Each shoe is thought as a sculptural artwork; a unique piece that resembles textures, colours and crafts; and a storyteller, which reflects concepts and ideas she has encountered on her daily journeys.

  Photography: Laura Daza

This brand has been open to the public for more than 12 years giving the best of contemporary design to Londoners. This designer thinks about non-ephemeral and timeless products; designing without boundaries, which mingles between art and design with a story and secret to keep. In the design process, she finds inspiration from any source but her aim is always offering the best, a sublime product for its quality of performance connected to delightful prints and shapes to perceive. Tracey has collaborated with creative brands and artists such as Dezeen; Nicola Yeoman; Nina Saunders; London Design Festival.

 Photography: Laura Daza

 Photography: Laura Daza

 Photography: Laura Daza

For more information visit http://www.tn29.com/
http://eastldn.co.uk

Marimekko+LAURADAZA workshop At BoXPaRk

 

Marimekko is a Finnish design and creative brand with the ideology of producing locally and conveying their Finnish culture worldwide. The concepts and inspirations are a quite interesting topic behind the history of this brand since 1951 and its founder Armi Ratia.

Their belief of finding happiness in everyday moments and having an emotional quality of life by sharing these moments with others; is transmitted by the design of home wear and fashion products. As a result,  colour is the main theme behind their concepts with the idea of liberating the body and mind and being inspired by the vibrations of these. With their latest collection shown for the first time in the New York Fashion Week 'Art of printmaking - colour for a reason', they had the chance to convey their message of timeless products produced to last forever.

This brand has created a village in which a community of people enjoy the simple moments of life such as drinking a cup of coffee or tea, buying healthy food, eating sweets, go for a ride, meditate, cook and share with others. Therefore, intentionally they have designed workshops in different worldwide shops to create conscious communities. I had the chance to assist to one of Marimekko's workshops at the Boxpark, one of the first pop-up mall, located in the Shoreditch area in East London. In the upper deck, all the fabrics and remnants were displayed for people to interact and be able to create fun accessories and puppets for FREE!

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

Photography LAURA DAZA

References:

http://youtu.be/rP800HnwHNo

http://www.boxpark.co.uk/marimekkowrkshp/

TATE MODERN MUSEUM-LONDON

CONTEMPORARY ART 

Artists since Impressionism have often proclaimed a separation of art from literature, the breaking of a relationship that was certainly close to the heart of Classicism. A looser affiliation with music has often been offered in exchange. Music, it was said, reaches deeper levels of response than could be reached by an art dependent on learned interpretation. The abstract elements of art - color, form, scale, their deployment in hard, soft, rhythmically assertive or quiet ways - would strike through man´s beneath. 

Histories of modern art conventionally stress the road to abstraction as the essential course of modernism- as a race course even, since there is much talk of who got there first to produce the first abstract work. In the nineteenth century avant-garde painting proceeded mostly by means of landscapes and still-life painting. The painters known to history as the Post-Impressionists they were not a group, but shared the impact of Impressionism and an urge to move beyond its emphatic objectivity to something more obviously constructed and significant - provided many of the starting points of twentieth century art. Gauguin was the most openly primitivist of them and other artists as Monet, Manet, Van gogh, Cezanne.

Expressionism - was first used to imply the reverse of Impressionism, to indicate the rejection of Impressionist priorities in French art. We can find echoes of the work of Matisse, Munch, Mondrian. The objective with this movement, was to move the spectator emotionally an spiritually through a markedly personal vision of the world, communicated through anti-naturalistic forms and colors. 

In the works of Picasso and Braque, especially their paintings of about 1909 to 1911, the issue of figuration versus abstraction first becomes a conscious matter. This work is called Analytical Cubism, and though the term like most such shorthand labels is misleading it permits us to refer to that phase o kind of work quickly. It is generally true to say that their work were done without reference to models. This has to be stressed because Cubism is said to have sprung from the art of Cezanne and to involve the representing of objects from several different viewpoints. What they say about Cubism is far from conclusive except on one point: they were working within the tradition of painting and they were doing something new - ¨seeking a new expression, as Picasso put it retrospectively in 1932.

Courbet, Manet and the Impressionists had in their different ways asserted that it was the job of painters to represent the real world directly and exclusively. Seurat and Cezanne had found it necessary to process reality through a controlling method or an intuitive process of integration in order to arrive at a pictorial wholeness they found essential. Gauguin is the best known artist associated with this tendency, which is Symbolism, but he is not typical of it: most Symbolist painting aimed at hyper-sophistication, not primitivism. As Cubists, Picasso and Braque belong to the Courbet-Manet-Impressionism tradition of taking the ordinary world as subject. 

Bibliography:

Lynton, Norbert - The Story of Modern Art - Phaidon 1992